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Caribbean Report 28-02-1989
No full textHerbert Hughes of the Anguilla United Party and one of three opposition MPs in the recent elections claimed that voting was not conducted fairly. Similar allegations are made by opposition MP, Victor Banks. Ben Johnson's coach, Charlie Francis testifies at Canada's judicial enquiry into the use of drugs in sports and in Britain, Frank Bruno returns home as the most popular loser. In the Caribbean, Joaquin Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic announces that great progress is made in fostering relations with Cuba. This statement was made despite the fact that formal diplomatic ties with Cuba were severed1. Headlines: On the day after the elections in Anguilla, Opposition MPs complained of serious electoral malpractice; in Canada, Ben Johnson's coach is called to the stand to testify; and, there was chaos at London 's Heathrow Airport as Frank Bruno returned home (00:00-00:48)2. Herbert Hughes of the Anguilla United Party was one of three opposition MPs who won their seats in the recent election. Hughes claimed that the voting was not conducted fairly. Similar claims were made by another opposition MP, Victor Banks (00:49-07:58)3. Financial News (07:59-09:20)4. Ben Johnson's coach, Charlie Francis testified at Canada's judicial enquiry into the use of drugs in sports (09:21-10:45)5. Frank Bruno returned home as Britain's most popular loser (10:46-12:36)6. Joaquin Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic announced that great progress has been made in the Dominican Republic's relations with Cuba. This statement was made despite the fact that formal diplomatic ties with Cuba were severed (12:37-15:02
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Caribbean Report 07-03-1989
No full textAmnesty International published second report on Jamaica and the death penalty and is highly critical of the island’s criminal justice system. The report notes that Jamaica has one of the highest per capita death row populations in the world. Two Caribbean Prime Ministers, Eugenia Charles and John Compton visit Brussels and held separate meetings with EEC Commissioners on the impact of trade to banana producers in the region. In sports, Ben Johnson’s coach Charlie Francis continues his testimony at the Canadian enquiry into drug use by amateur athletes. The report concludes with the launch of a campaign by the unofficial black section of the British Labour Party to increase the number of Black MPs.1. Headlines: The human rights organisation, Amnesty International issues a hard hitting report on Jamaica's criminal justice system; two Caribbean Prime Ministers plead for bananas in Brussels; and, more startling testimony in Toronto from Ben Johnson's coach (00:00-00:38)2. Amnesty International published its second report on Jamaica and the death penalty (00:39-05:22)3. Financial News (05:23-07:22)4. Ben Johnson's coach, Charlie Francis continue his testimony at the Canadian enquiry into drug use in amateur sports (07:23-09:05)5. Prime Ministers Eugenia Charles and John Compton of the Caribbean visit Brussels to have meetings in the area of banana exports into the European Community (09:06-11:42)6. The unofficial black section of the British Labour Party has launched a campaign to increase the number of black Labour MPs (11:43-14:55
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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